{"product_id":"francesca","title":"Francesca","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1939 in Northern Kenya, after an unpleasant incident with a German, a young Italian girl decides to throw in her lot with a young District Officer, Jack Harding.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eShe is actually half-English, and when her language skills are discovered by the Kenyan authorities, she and Jack, with the help of a group of Rendile tribesmen, thwart an attack by the Italians. During their adventures, the relationship between Francesca and Jack grows.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eJack enlists to fight the war and is rapidly promoted and posted to Burma, where he is captured by the Japanese and imprisoned in a POW camp.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Francesca, who hates school in Nairobi and is expelled, turns his large house into a successful hotel.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eShe is summoned to London in 1946 by Sir Richard Harding as Jack, his youngest son, has now been declared, ÔMissing believed deadÕ.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eFrancesca convinces Sir Richard that Jack may still be alive and she travels to Burma determined to try to find him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksWholesale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44365536821409,"sku":"9781326822095","price":25.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0462\/1120\/3233\/files\/1g8mwrd6-front-shortedge-384.jpg?v=1716502621","url":"https:\/\/bookswholesale.myshopify.com\/products\/francesca","provider":"BooksWholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}